How To Install putty on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty on Ubuntu.

What is `putty`

putty is:

This is the Unix port of the popular Windows SSH client, PuTTY. It supports flexible terminal setup, mid-session reconfiguration using Ctrl-rightclick, multiple X11 authentication protocols, and various other interesting things not provided by ssh in an xterm.

Pageant is an SSH authentication agent, and a tool for communicating with an already-running agent.

There are three methods to install putty on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install putty Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install putty using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install putty

Install putty Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install putty using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install putty

Install putty Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install putty using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install putty

How To Uninstall putty on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the putty package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove putty

Uninstall putty And Its Dependencies

To uninstall putty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove putty

Remove putty Configurations and Data

To remove putty configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge putty

Remove putty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove putty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge putty

Dependencies

putty have the following dependencies:

References

putty website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install putty package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.